sequestration

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: se=ques=tra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

sequestration, n. [L. sequestratio: cf. F. séquestration.].

•  The act of separating, or setting aside, a thing in controversy from the possession of both the parties that contend for it, to be delivered to the one adjudged entitled to it. It may be voluntary or involuntary.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  The state of being separated or set aside; separation; retirement; seclusion from society.  [1913 Webster]

  "Since Henry Monmouth first began to reign, . . .
  This loathsome sequestration have I had."  [1913 Webster]
•  Disunion; disjunction.  Boyle.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

sequestration

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

Penalty

N penalty, retribution, pain, pains and penalties, weregild, wergild, peine forte et dure, penance, the devil to pay, fine, mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, escheat, damages, deodand, sequestration, confiscation, premunire, doomage.